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Originally Posted by SemperFideles

I'd like to throw my vote in the hat for at least option 1 above.

Something below the signature that read something like:

The following 4 users found this post helpful: George, Sue, Pat, Rich

With linkable usernames.

One of the collateral benefits of a Thanking or Helpful Answers system is the useless "I agree with you completely" post. It allows for more focused answers rather than a Ditto. Furthermore, some of my users use the Post Thanks hack to let people know that they read their post about some event in their lives and are happy for them.

I want to Thank You for this very useful addon and don't want to seem ungrateful for the suggestion. I'll use it either way but I'd like to de-anonymize the helpful feature for many reasons (Admin selected). It would be great to be able to go into a profile of a member you trust and just search for the posts they find helpful.

Part of what I like is the anonymity as if users are shown they will no longer use the negative rating aspects of it. Anonymity even allows friends to keep friends in check with neg rep clicks.

My only issue is that certain users abuse this and will continually neg rep the same person.